Our Children Have To Leave Sometimes

(Let Them Go, and Pray)

Envision, if you will, a mother bird teaching her young fledgling to fly.  She leads the little bird out of the nest for its first solo flight.  Mama bird has taught the young one well.  She turns him loose and hopes that he uses his learned skills.  Suddenly, here comes helpful neighbor bird who wants to save the little one.  The neighbor bird grabs the young one and doesn’t allow him to experience flight on his own.  Neighbor bird means well, but the young bird now doesn’t want to fly on his own or leave the nest.  Mother bird has to start all over again.

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Prov. 22:6).

As parents, we too must allow our children to leave the nest.  Neighbors and friends still need to watch out for a child’s welfare, yet be careful to help out—only with the agreement of the parent—if or when the child goes astray.

By all means, if a vulture comes to harm the young fledgling (or child), please do come and rescue the defenseless one.  Now when all is well, please dear neighbor, allow the young bird to grow up and be his own bird.

"Recently this has happened to our little nest and God is getting us through the transition peacefully."

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It Takes a Village – Get Involved!

"It Takes a Village to Raise a Child”; no, that phrase did not originate from a book written by Hillary Rodham Clinton, it came from an old African proverb and it’s a true statement

There was a time when teachers were the authority figure during the day while a child was in school.  Today things are different because of the integrity of some teachers & that parents believe everything that their children have to say before asking the adult what happened.  Some parents will even cuss-an-educator-out for saying something to that parent’s child.  Oh, and long time ago on the way home from school, the child might get in trouble with the neighbor up the street before having to confront their own parents.  That was an example of a real “village” which helped to raise the children in the neighborhood.

Our world is a village and crimes of injustice are children of that village.  Crimes of injustice are happening all over this world that we live in today.  As Bishop George Davis of Impact Church pointed out during a recent sermon, people should get involved and not just turn a deaf-ear when crimes of maltreatment occur.  We should take a stand to help another person who may be subject to bullying, human trafficking, or other forms of abuse.

Many times, we just don’t want to get involved.  It may be because there is a fear of retaliation, a feeling of being inadequate to make a difference, or not having the time to do anything right then and there.  Sure you don’t want to put yourself or your family in jeopardy, but there are many ways to report crimes, so you’re not placed in danger.

It’s always a good thing to check with Holy Spirit as your back-up advocate in times of confrontations.  Holy Spirit will let you know when to get involved and when to be safe and report an incident to the proper authorities.

If you don’t have a village (there may not be a mother, father, grandmother, aunts or uncles) within your family, then borrow or adopt a village.  Villages can be established through “Small Groups or Cell Groups” from church, or people you can trust like the mature woman up the street.

Always be aware of your surroundings.  Pay attention to the signs of abuse.  Get involved and be that “village” who will step up to help someone in need.

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Santa Clause Again?

The man in the red and while suit is really a ‘scapegoat’ if you look at the myth for what it really is.  A parent promises a child something and later the parent is unable to supply the child’s desires, so the parent blames the ‘lack of something’, on Santa.  If the parent fails to be able to deliver, then blaming Santa, still makes the parent looks good in the eyes of the child.  The parent says, “It was Santa’s fault that Rudo didn’t get his particular toy”, that’s nothing but a lie compiled on top of another lie.  We as parents shouldn’t make promises that we may not be able to keep.

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